🟦 A Burberry display is coming to the V&A in London — and it will shine a spotlight on the fashion brand’s much-loved and enduring trench coat 🧥

V&A's Burberry trench coat display will mark 170 years of fashion brand

A Burberry display is coming to the V&A in London in September 2026

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🟦 My latest post dives into the biggest UK and global stories from museums, art and heritage. This week’s headlines include: 🗞️ V&A staff strike over ‘Amazon-style’ conditions 🗞️ “Cultural vandalism” as British glass museum closes 🗞️ Philadelphia Museum of Art shocks with $10m deficit

V&A strike over ‘Amazon-style’ conditions

PLUS: “Cultural vandalism” as glass museum closes

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🟦 Lisa Nandy survived, but will free museum entry last under Andy Burnham's new government?

Lisa Nandy survived, but will free museum entry last under Andy Burnham's new government?

Charging foreign tourists for museum entry might be a tempting quick financial win for Andy Burnham

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🟦 The new director of Tate has been announced — and they’re taking a big pay cut British curator Jessica Morgan will take up the role in Jan 2027. She’s led the New York-based Dia Art Foundation since 2015. 📩 This is the top story in my weekly museum, art and heritage news Substack👇

Tate's new director takes a pay cut

PLUS: Shock as Nandy keeps culture job

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🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | British curator Jessica Morgan — currently Director of Dia Art Foundation in New York — has been appointed the new Director of Tate, succeeding Maria Balshaw

🟦 A packed week of news from the world of museums, art and heritage ⤵ ✨ A first look at the Bayeux Tapestry as it’s unpacked in Britain ✨ Wham! chintz! And clay! lead the the V&A’s 2027 shows ✨ The Beatles birthplace gets Liverpool blockbuster ✨ Closure of Cardiff’s national museum “realistic”

Wham! and chintz! lead V&A's 2027

PLUS: Legionnaires' bacteria found in NYC museums

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🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | Lisa Nandy REMAINS culture secretary in Andy Burnham’s cabinet WOW! 🤯

🟦 The Prime Minister Andy Burnham has paid tribute to President Macron’s in a phonecall on his efforts to bring the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK

Bayeux Tapestry latest From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

🟦 Another day, another major raid on a museum (and again in France) Thieves steal objects worth millions from the — publicly owned — Musée Lalique in Grand Est The town's mayor said “The security company did not intervene immediately; they did not call the gendarmes"

Lalique jewels worth €4m stolen in latest French museum raid

A private security firm is under fire after a cleaner was first to arrive at the burglary scene in Alsace and call police

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🟦 9 hour queues to snap up Bayeux Tapestry tickets, and David Bowie's archive heads on tour PLUS bosses consider closing National Museum Cardiff, and the official portrait of former German chancellor Angela Merkel has been unveiled These are the museum, art and heritage stories you need to know!👇

9-hour queues for Bayeux Tapestry tickets

PLUS: David Bowie archive heads on the road

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The British Museum is celebrating its “single biggest day of ticket sales” for an exhibition in its history, bringing in more than £2.5 million from those keen to see the Bayeux Tapestry.

British Museum generates £2.5m from Bayeux Tapestry tickets in one day - Arts Professional

The British Museum is celebrating its "single biggest day of ticket sales" for an exhibition in its history, bringing in more than £2.5 million from those

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🟦 Queue for Bayeux Tapestry tickets "paused" after 2h50m... Struggling under demand? We'll wait and see!

🟦 My ticket to the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum secured! 🎟️ Was in the online queue bang on 10am and it took 20 mins — for me I have to say it was very seamless! (Let's see how it holds up this morning...) Can't wait!

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🟦 NEWS 🚨 | Young V&A museum in East London will close tomorrow until Friday due to the heatwave Statement says: "Due to extreme weather, Young V&A will close at 13.00 on Tuesday 23 June and reopen at 10.00 on Friday 26 June" Tickets for Wallace & Gromit exhibition will be automatically refunded

🟦 Tate Modern’s upcoming Frida Kahlo exhibition has generated the highest ticket pre-sales in Tate's history 41,000 tickets have been sold to Frida: The Making of an Icon so far 📲 Here's all the latest museum and art news you need 👇

Tate's Kahlo show sees record demand

PLUS: Members crash British Museum Bayeux booking

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#OTD 30 years ago - 19 June 1996, a former gasworks site on the north of Greenwich Peninsula was selected by the Millennium Commission as location of the Millennium Exhibition. The NEC Birmingham, Pride Park in Derby and Bromley-by-Bow in East London were the other locations on the final short list.

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | The £400m new London Museum at Smithfield Market will open to the public on Saturday 28 November

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | Tate Modern’s upcoming major exhibition on Frida Kahlo has generated the highest ticket pre-sales in Tate's history 35,000 tickets have already been sold to Frida: The Making of an Icon, with ten days still to go before opening

🟦 the end of a wonderful era www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88

Bradford-born painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction has died

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Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

🟦 London's newest museum is open! The £12.5m Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration — the world’s largest space dedicated to the art form — has opened its doors Its unveiling was the top story in my newsletter, which featured 13 news stories from the world of museums, art and heritage 👀 ⤵

London's newest museum opens

PLUS: Where are Birmingham's masterpieces?

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News | Chanel CEO joins British Museum board of trustees https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/chanel-ceo-joins-british-museum-board-of-trustees/

🟦 maxwell museums EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Today I reveal an “exceptionally rare” Egyptian antiquity — one of the very first Ancient Egyptian artworks to have arrived in Britain — is to be auctioned for the first time The 4,300-year-old funerary sculpture will head to Christie’s in London with a £3m estimate

🟦 I have a proper art world exclusive in my Substack tomorrow My subscribers will get the big scoop before anyone else in the world — and it's a story with global interest Sign up (for free!) to not miss it! 🚨 maxwellmuseums.substack.com/welcome

Laura Kuenssberg's Shocking Phone Call

ALT: Laura Kuenssberg's Shocking Phone Call

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🟦 I have a proper art world exclusive in my Substack tomorrow My subscribers will get the big scoop before anyone else in the world — and it's a story with global interest Sign up (for free!) to not miss it! 🚨 maxwellmuseums.substack.com/welcome

Laura Kuenssberg's Shocking Phone Call

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🟦 It's been a busy news week in museums, galleries, heritage and art! Here's 3 stories you may have missed⤵ 👉A rediscovered painting by Leonora Carrington will go on public display for the first time in London this summer. It will be be added to the Freud Museum London's current show on the artist

🟦 From bikinis to cat bowls: how museum gift stores became the place to shop 💳 via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

From bikinis to cat bowls: how museum gift stores became the place to shop

Curated edits mean people are treating museums as stand-alone shopping destinations rather than simply exit points

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🟦 I've spoken to Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost about her first ever fresco Unveiled at the new BRUSK museum in Bruges, Prouvost told me how she wants the vast artwork to be “a space to live with, and live in” for the people and visitors to the city Read my convo with Prouvost here ⤵️

Laure Prouvost unveils vast Bruges fresco at new BRUSK museum

Artist Laure Prouvost has unveiled a major new permanent artwork at the new BRUSK museum in Bruges

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🟦 What's the secret to good exhibition PR? How do cultural organisations execute a successful press campaign? Well, Kew Gardens' Press Officer Sarah Farrell — who has just led the press campaign for the Henry Moore: Monumental Nature exhibition — gives me all the answers in my latest interview!

How Kew Gardens promoted Henry Moore: Inside an art exhibition PR campaign

What's the secret to good exhibition PR? Kew Gardens' Senior Press Officer Sarah Farrell gives me all the answers

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